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Chapter 5 - Specialization Psychopathology Description of the Course The goal of this training is to acquire basic skills in major peripheral psychophysiological measures. The relation between cognitive and psychophysiological variables, such as memory load, mental effort, and attention, will be made clear. In addition, general methodological concepts and issues, such as tonic (baseline) activity, phasic activity, and the so-called “law of initial value”, will be discussed. The training consists of four meetings. In the first meeting, an overview will be presented of the psychophysiological methods that are relevant to neuropsychology. The second meeting is devoted to major domains in psychophysiology, such as heart rate (variability), blood pressure, galvanic skin responses, and pupillometry (i.e., pupil dilation). In this meeting, students acquire basic hands-on experience in the laboratory. The third and fourth meeting are practical sessions, in which an existing dataset will be provided to analyze and report on. 107 Instructional Approach Lecture, demonstrations, and practical sessions. Form of Assessment Short written research report. | 486PP Clinical Assessment Instruments – 2 credits Coordinator: Jill Lobbestael, Clinical Psychological Science (FPN), Phone 38 81611, 50 Universiteitssingel, Room 1.340, E-mail: jill.lobbestael@dmkep.unimaas.nl Description of the Course Running parallel to the core seminars throughout year 1, a series of training sessions will familiarize students with the range of rating scales, questionnaires, and interview instruments most commonly used in clinical practice and research. The first session will provide an overview of the classes of available instruments and their applications in clinical and research contexts. Later sessions will focus on instruments designed to assess specific symptoms and severity of the disorders covered in the current core seminar. The last sessions will focus on broader measures of personality, psychopathology and adjustment (e.g., MMPI, SCL-90, quality of life, social adjustment and coping scales). Working with case materials, students will learn how to choose appropriate assessment instruments for clarifying individual diagnoses, planning interventions, and monitoring their effects. These training sessions will give students basic background information and hands-on experience in valid and reliable instruments for assessing psychopathology. Instructional Approach Group discussions, lectures, demonstrations and practical training.
Prospectus Research Master Psychology 2008 • 2009 Form of Assessment Written assignments. 108 | 581PP Clinical Skills III: Clinical Interview for the DSM IV (SCID I and SCID II) – 1 credit Coordinator: Reinier Kreutzkamp, Clinical Psychological Science (FPN), Phone 38 81605, 50 Universiteitssingel, Room 1.324, E-mail: r.kreutzkamp@dep.unimaas.nl Description of the Course The aim of this training is to teach students how to conduct the semi-structured clinical interview for the DSM-IV-Tr Axis I (SCID I) and Axis II (SCID II) diagnoses. Students will learn to interpret the outcome of these interviews, to establish differential diagnoses, and to summarize findings in a written report. Instructional Approach Four 2-3 hour practical sessions and demonstrations. Form of Assessment Students’ skills in the above areas will be assessed on the basis of observation of their interview behaviour as well as on their written reports. | 582PP Clinical Skills IV: Intervention Techniques – 1 credit Coordinator: Marisol Voncken, Clinical Psychological Science (FPN), Phone 38 81253, 50 Universiteitssingel, Room, 1.351, E-mail: m.voncken@dep.unimaas.nl Description of the Course Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a widely used treatment regimen that is seen as the evidence-based treatment for various psychopathological disorders such as anxiety disorders and depression. The behavioural component, exposure, was developed in the sixties by researchers like Skinner and was considered a breakthrough for specific phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder. These disorders were seen as untreatable at that time. In the eighties the cognitive component started to develop. Aaron Beck, in those days trained as a psychoanalytic therapist, was able to treat depression within a few months with his cognitive approach. This was also a breakthrough, as psychoanalytic treatments for depression at that time normally took years. Researchers and therapists started to combine the behavioural and cognitive techniques, resulting in cognitive behavioural therapy. Over the years many studies have shown the effectiveness of this treatment, and in the Netherlands CBT is included in the official professional guidelines for treatment of anxiety disorders and depression. The aim of this training is to teach students some of the basics of CBT for relatively simple forms of psychopathology. This training will focus on main elements of CBT, that is, 1) making a functional analysis of a case, 2) explaining the rationale of exposure
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